Wirt a, W. 
1963 
March 
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The whole group then started hack east across the center of the island. 
Walking in the Interior of this island is very difficult due to the - 
thousands of petrel burrows which honey-comb the soil. There must have 
a Bonin petrel every couple of yards in the grassy Interior, end it 
would he impossible to guess how many were under ground. We only saw one 
sooty petrel all evening; these appear to be concentrated at Pearl and 
Hermes from our limited observations. We found several groups of 50 or 
so gray-backed terns sitting among the vegetation on the ground and 
calling, but only a f<'w sooty terns were seen on the ground. There were 
many frigates nesting and roosting in the bushes in the interior also. 
John and I then split from the rest of the group end contimf'ed on ahead 
ac^pss the island, banding frigates as we west. We stopped at the cssua- 
rina tree on the east side south of the palm trees. There were many 
Hawaiian noddles negting in it, and fairy terns, a red- footed boobies, 
and one frigate were roosting in it. We caught aud banded a curlew 
just east of this tree, end than continued east to the beach through a 
wide band of Sceevola where many frigates were nesting and roosting. 
We arrived on the beach near the middle of the rocky section. By now, 
about 1:30 am, a full moon has risen end the turnstones were scared off 
the rocks in front of us before we ever got near enough to catch then. 
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Just before we came to the Scaevola, coming out here, Joke caught 
a wedge-tailed shearwater, which we also banded. We then moved counter 
clockwise arounf this Island, arriving back at the camp about 0700. Along 
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the way we banded a greet many masked boobies some frigates, a few turn- 
stones, and some miscellaneous birds. 
After it had gotten light we were moving down the we®t side when 
